How to Customize User Initialization Files

1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role on the system where the users' home directories are created and shared.

2. Create a skeleton directory for each type of user.

   # mkdir /shared-dir/skel/user-type

   shared-dir	The name of a directory that is available to other systems on the network.
   user-type	The name of a directory to store initialization files for a type of user.

3. Copy the default user initialization files into the directories you created for different types of users.

   # cp /etc/skel/local.cshrc /shared-dir/skel/user-type/.cshrc # cp /etc/skel/local.login /shared-dir/skel/user-type/.login # cp /etc/skel/local.profile /shared-dir/skel/user-type/.profile

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   Note –

   If the account has profiles assigned to it, then the user has to launch a special version of the shell called a profile shell to use commands (with any security attributes) that are assigned to the profile. There are three profile shells corresponding to the types of shells: pfsh (Bourne shell), pfcsh (C shell), and pfksh (Korn shell).

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4. Edit the user initialization files for each user type and customize them based on your site's needs.

   For a detailed description on the ways to customize the user initialization files, see Customizing a User's Work Environment.

5. Set the permissions for the user initialization files.

   # chmod 744 /shared-dir/skel/user-type/.*

6. Verify that the permissions for the user initialization files are correct.

   # ls -la /shared-dir/skel/*

Example—Customizing User Initialization Files

The following example shows how to customize the C-shell user initialization file in the /export/skel/enduser directory designated for a particular type of user. For an example of a .cshrc file, see Example—.cshrc File.

# mkdir /export/skel/enduser
# cp /etc/skel/local.cshrc /export/skel/enduser/.cshrc
 
(Edit .cshrc file )
# chmod 744 /export/skel/enduser/.*